Clown,

"Homosexual men in healthy relationships with other homosexual men have zero interest in children."

That's been my impression too.

Gay men don't want little boys.

They like....ummm....fully matured male bodies.

Are we feeding the Taliban?

How much aid is blocked by the Taliban?

Snoofy,

I doubt you got the meaning of what I just said do I'll make it clear.

I'm not in the mood for any games or insults and won't talk to you.

Snoofy,

You don't see anything except what you want to see.

If I did provide a link, you'd reinterpret it to mean something else.

Laura,

I'm convinced that many young people today, despite what the media tries to sell, are actually craving boundaries.

Not because they want to be restricted or ordered around.

No, it's because they're hungry to understand where the limits of propriety are. They want to learn how to become better adults.

They want values, real ones, and not the hollow, aimless, rudderless values pushed by the so called adults around them.

They want to know what "normal" looks like, because no one's showing them anymore.

Laura,

I'm not judging anyone.

You can't speak to progressives without your sort of comeback.

No...no one is claiming I'm without fault or I did't do things too.

But at least I wasn't brought up being taught it's ok.

That sort of teaching actually encourages experimentation.

Young kids are hungering for someone to tell them, "no...it's not ok or good for you to experiment...try to refrain".

Laura,

"Funny that heterosexual sexual exploration in youth is considered no big deal"

Who says?

Just more of your progressive training.

You're so up to the neck in it you have no idea how lost you are.

Changing topics, since this thread went nowhere.

In another discussion, Rcade said:
"I don't know what book Bill is frightened of. There's a lot of fear of books from right wingers who never read any."

The topic was progressiveness, and I brought up the fact that schools are putting books in libraries that contain explicit content. Books that walk kids through gay sexual acts step by step. That's not made up, that's fact. Rcade's response? A smug, lazy jab to avoid the actual issue.

So here's a real example that aired on national television.

I watched a recent Steve Wilkos episode where a woman brought her fiance on the show because of something she'd heard about his past. Years earlier, he and another boy had reportedly been caught in a sexual situation. She wanted him hooked up to a lie detector to find out if he was gay.

The test said he wasn't. It was something from his youth, and it should've stayed private. But instead, she dragged it onto national TV and humiliated him and by extension, the other boy involved too. That was wrong. Flat-out wrong. And I'm sure she saw nothing wrong with doing this.

She has serious boundary issues. If I were the guy's parent, I'd be urging him to think long and hard about whether this marriage makes sense. Even Steve Wilkos looked unsure by the end. The guy looked humiliated and he should've been, not for the past, but for what she just did to him.

This is what I mean by the risks and dangers of progressiveness. It's not about being anti-gay. It's about the message being pushed, especially to kids, that sexual experimentation is just casual. That it's no big deal. "Try both, see what you like." And if you question it? You're labeled a bigot or supporting censorship or something worse.

But this isn't about fear. It's about boundaries. It's about pushing back on the idea that childhood is some kind of identity lab to be used for ideological and political purposes. And now the rights of parents are coming into play.

Progressiveness used to mean equal rights. Now it means no rules. And if you're not okay with that? You're the problem.

Well, some of us aren't buying that anymore.

Clown,

You have until Oct to let the Justices know how they should vote.

Laura,

The executive order will be put in place in 30 days unless something changes.

Laura,

Winner takes all.

Biden lost. Trump won.

Boaz,

"Birthright citizenship was for slaves kids, not illegals"

The 14th Amendment made the freed slaves citizens, along with their children. Their children became citizens not because their parents were, but because they were born in the US and under its legal jurisdiction.

By contrast, children born abroad to US citizens get their citizenship through their parents and not their birthplace.

That distinction matters. The 14th Amendment wasn't written to give automatic citizenship to the children of people who crossed the border illegally and have no lawful status.

It was about correcting a historic injustice and not about handing out citizenship to anyone who happens to be born on US soil.

Somewhere along the line, that line got blurred and we've been misapplying it ever since.

This ruling stops federal judges from doing exactly what liberals accuse Trump of doing which is abusing power for political ends.

The difference?

Trump was elected by the people. He's doing the job he was chosen to do.

These judges weren't. They've crowned themselves demigods.

Snoofy,

"Stopped? Blacks and women can already vote."

He said progressiveness, not civil rights from a century ago.

What he meant was,for example, public school libraries providing books that teach kids how to have gay sex.

"Try it... you might like it... it only hurts at first."

That's not education. It's ideological grooming, masquerading as tolerance.

Snoofy,

There's no point trying to have a civil conversation with you.

I'm generally willing to engage with people, even those I disagree with. But when someone consistently crosses the line, I back off and wait to see if things improve. If the behavior stops, I usually let it slide.

But let me be clear. You don't get to bring up personal topics unless I've opened that door.

That's not negotiable.

Snoofy,

Too late...I'm old and tired.

Need sleep.

Snoofy and Clown,

You don't know what I support, and more importantly, you don't seem to understand the difference between what someone supports and what they simply recognize as reality.

Accepting one fact doesn't mean endorsing an entire worldview. Stop pretending you can read minds.

The next time you assume you know what someone is thinking, remind yourself you're not a psychic. You're not Godlike. You don't know what people "really" mean. You just think you do and that's the problem.

Beliefs aren't binary. Life isn't black and white. There's nuance.

In short, stop believing everything you think.

Snoofy,

"They helped a -------- of Jews colonize Palestine."

Help?

More like help them get out of Germany.

Clown,

"The Republican Party is literally following the actions of Nazi party."

Remind me. When did the Nazi party help the Jews?

Bell,

More likely they'll just set up a fast lane for looters.

Bell,

"Government run grocery stores is hilarious."

I'm sure they'll prosecute shop lifters.

Snoofy,

Did you actually read the list of promises this guy made to get elected?
It reads like socialist fan fiction. Free everything.

Only about 25% of Mamdani's fantasy wish list has any shot of becoming reality.
The rest? Pipe dreams dressed up as policy, wrapped in activist slogans.

He got elected selling utopia and stoking division.
How long before his rhetoric kicks off another wave of pro-Palestinian street chaos?

Now let's see how fast reality slaps that smile off his face.

At one time I would have doubted AOC's chances in 2028.

After this NYC election, I could more easily imagine her getting the nomination now.

She could hire Snoofy to run her campaign.

Her slogan could be written by Snoofy.

"Why the ---- should the US give two ----- about Israel in the first place"

hmmm....I'm going to watch to see what direction this thread goes.